Videoblogging Before YouTube

In Videoblogging Before YouTube Trine Bj¿rkmann Berry offers a cultural history of online video focusing on the critical moment when the internet moved from being a mostly textual medium to a truly multimedia one. Through a close analysis of the early videoblogging community and their creative practices she argues that early in the new millennium a new cultural-technical media hybrid emerged. This coalesced around the short-form digital film whose aesthetic technical form and content is a predecessor to and anticipator of our current media ecology. Trine Bj¿rkmann Berry is a visiting researcher at the University of Sussex. She publishes on online video digital culture and aesthetics. Her new research examines the history and practices of the video essay.